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Ahijah

Mentioned 953–883 BC traditional (Jones)

Mentioned in 4 verses, first in 1 Kings 15:27.

Compiled from the tagged verses.

Child
Baasha
Tagged in
4 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children; a button shows the grandchildren. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Ahijah: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Places

Places named in the same verses as Ahijah, with the number of verses they share; a larger marker means more. Locations follow OpenBible.info, which grades each identification.

  1. possible location: Gibbethon1
  2. likely location: Tirzah1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 978–858 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 6 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Ahijah’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Ahijah in 4 tagged verses across 2 books.

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  1. 1 Kings3
  2. 2 Kings1

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBAhijah 24
KJVAhijah 20
ASVAhijah 24

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 4 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

1 Kings3 verses
  1. 15:27

    Then Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against Nadab, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon of the Philistines while Nadab and all Israel were besieging the city.

  2. 15:33

    In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

  3. 21:22

    I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.’

2 Kings1 verse
  1. 9:9

    I will make the house of Ahab like the houses of Jeroboam son of Nebat and Baasha son of Ahijah.